For the food brand marketer, Moving Your Brand Up the Food Chain is sure to be a treasure trove of marketing intelligence and advice. There are certain basic marketing principles that can be applied to any consumer brand, but navigating the ins and outs of the food industry is what makes Moving Your Brand Up…
On Monday, November 6th, 2017 at Purdue University, my firm hosted: 80+ Emerging Brand Indiana Food Companies. 200+ Indiana Food Entrepreneurs. 9 Food Retail Buying Groups. 8 Independent and Chain Restaurants / Caterers. Word has it that close to a dozen products got picked up by retailers and distributors. Commerce in action! We realize there…
Pre-registration for this food conference ended last week and we are at 50% capacity for sample tables and 70% full for classes. We have a very large room for the lunch-time buyer’s roundtable panel so I don’t see that selling out—but I would love to be surprised! Here is our homepage link to learn more about the…
West Lafayette, IN—A first-of-its-kind event, the Emerging Indiana Food Brands Forum Fall 2017 will pull together food scientists, marketing experts and retail procurement professionals from around the state to support local and regional food companies who are looking to scale up their business. The one-day conference, presented by NewPoint Marketing in partnership with Indiana Grown…
Why is web design important? A well-designed website presents your brand as well-established, relevant, and, if done properly, a brand that consumers can relate to. This is particularly important if your target-market is millenials, who are on the web constantly. Aside from aesthetics, web design also includes user experience. Is your design coming off as…
NewPoint Food Industry Marketing: Why that? Why now? From the outside, it may look like we are walking away from idc—we are not. One would think that idc (full name: Indiana Design Consortium), a company celebrating 45(!) years of business, would proudly embrace and trumpet its storied and successful history as a thriving business that…
To identify and isolate areas for improvement in shopper marketing program strategies and tactics to further your CPG brand growth against set KPIs:
This shopper marketing audit will detail and contrast your CPG brand shopper marketing and messaging versus that of industry standard competitive practices and will include, but not limited to:
Marketing Communication Audit Report
The deliverable will be a white paper with NewPoint Marketing findings and recommendations related to marketing activities in one retail partnership or DMA/market as defined by the client.
Brant brings 20+ years of experience to NewPoint as chief brand communicator and marketing-plan contributor.
Brant’s specialty is bringing an outside, investigative perspective that can feel alternately “rigorous” or “exasperating” depending on your point of view. Yet, he never fails to uncover a business’s unique selling proposition—one which can serve as a brand foundation for marketing that is compelling, creative and “sticky.”
Throughout his career, Brant’s applied his skill set to a broad range of business applications along the food supply-and-service chain. His services have provided vital clarity for all types of operations, from the more conventional food and food equipment manufacturers to the adjacent enterprises that partner with them, such as the Purdue University College of Agriculture.
Food industry marketing expertise—from retail to food-service and food-service equipment— is a natural outcome of having deep knowledge in every facet of a business’ operation. With 10 years in branding and business development, preceded by 15 years in mass media and promotions, Stephanie is an FMI Emerge mentor, holds an executive-level expertise in sales, marketing, media, and production management.
This exceptionally diverse skill set adds value for NewPoint clients by providing a full complement of perspectives on food-industry brand management endeavors.
Wired for a hawkish attention to detail while also maintaining a high-resolution view of the big picture, Stephanie is uniquely able to provide astute branding direction and simultaneously apply the business principles necessary to squeeze more bang out of every marketing buck.
A member of the Forbes Agency Council and quoted in the New York Times, USA Today and Adweek, Patrick Nycz is the author of Moving Your Brand Up the Food Chain: Marketing Strategies to Grow Local and Regional Food Brands. He is an FMI Emerge mentor, an American Advertising Federation’s Silver Medal Award winner, and the Founding President of NewPoint Marketing, a full-service food industry marketing firm focused on food industry brands On a mission to grow.
Patrick’s vision for NewPoint emerged from his team’s success using this proven model for food industry clients and is fueled by NewPoint-funded food buyers and food manufacturers research around tracking consumer, industry, and ongoing food trends.
Since starting her 20-year career in commercial graphic design at one of the foremost catalog retailers in the world, Kristy’s visual branding skills have organically narrowed into the food-industry niche.
In that time, she’s directed graphic identities for snack food and restaurant startups, print materials for multiple agricultural seed companies, display graphics and merchandiser signage for major food-equipment manufacturers and everything in between.
Today, as one of the key brand architects for NewPoint clients, she continues to lead our visual research & development team, always working to find the innovative median between the best practices worth honoring and the accepted rules worth breaking.